Putting too much value on independence

What I've learned after nine months in hospital

View from my hospital room in March

If you had asked me a year ago what I feared the most, I would’ve said a loss of my independence.

As a disabled person, I was encouraged from a young age to do things on my own, and I took an enormous amount of pride in that I could do virtually anything and everything independently.

As I got older, this was further rei…